English English Dictionary

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Result for Sycophant

Sycophant (n.)

An informer; a talebearer.

Sycophant (n.)

A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.

Sycophant (v. t.)

To inform against; hence, to calumniate.

Sycophant (v. t.)

To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

Sycophant (v. i.)

To play the sycophant.